Records - Uncle Fritz

Source: The List (Issue 572)
Date: 27 March 2007
Written by: Mark Edmundson

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Uncle Fritz

Field Reports (Pet Piranha)

HAUNTED ACOUSTIC

There’s a terminally bleak air to Dundee painter and musician Fraser Stewart’s quiet-time aside from Alamos and Perineum metal outlets. With a penchant for tuneless whistling and testing, syntax-free deep vocals, Fritz undermines the beautiful melancholy of his oft-inspired melodies, dextrous guitar work and sparing atmospherics. It certainly makes for a morose and often chilling outcome, dazzling and infuriating in equal measure. Lyrically we are treated to tortured ramblings on a myriad of dark concerns, from not fitting in at parties to attention-seeking shotgun fantasies, all tailor made for the miserablist’s self-harm soundtrack.

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